Epiphytic shrub or small recumbent tree. Branchlets densely clothed with fine, golden, manifestly appressed subsetulose hairs in the young parts, glabrescent and greyish in the older ones. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, apex gradually or rather abruptly acuminate, acute, not rarely somewhat curved, the terminal gland small, base rounded to subcordate, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, very young ones subdensely covered with long appressed dilutely golden setose hairs on both faces, mature ones entirely glabrescent and shining above, but ± permanently hairy beneath, especially along the margin, the hairs finally caducous, the undersurface becoming punctate then, margin ciliate-serrulate, 5-8(-11) by 2.5-3.5(-4.5) cm, midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves 3-4 pairs, curved-ascending and anastomosing, slightly impressed above, obsolete beneath; petiole densely rufous-setulose, 2-3(-4) mm. Flowers axillary, solitary or mostly 2 or 3 in a fascicle, very densely hirsute by long, rufous-golden, bristle-like, ± appressed hairs in all parts, the corolla excepted. Pedicels stout, 7-8(-10) by 1-1.5 mm, basal bracts minute. Bracteoles ovate-acuminate, c. 4 mm, glabrous inside. Calyx c. 6 mm, 5-lobed to nearly the base, lobes glabrous at the base only, +-including the corolla. Corolla urceolate, fleshy, glabrous, greenish or brownish creamy, 6-7 mm, lobes short-reflexed, purplish. Filaments glabrous, linear, 3.5 mm; anther-cells granular, 2 mm; tubules narrow, slender, 1.6 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 4 mm.
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